Optomi
Staff Software Engineer- Server Infrastructure & Automation
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Fort Worth, Texas
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Python, Ansible, Go, or Java
- Experience with Linux infrastructure
- Windows Server administration experience
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Git and CI/CD experience
- Experience with server hardware, firmware, drivers, and out-of-band management
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, and ITSM platforms
- Experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience developing self-healing or autonomous infrastructure
Full description
Staff Software Engineer, Server Infrastructure & Automation
Optomi, in partnership with a leading organization, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer – Server Infrastructure & Automation to help modernize and automate enterprise data center infrastructure. This role will focus heavily on infrastructure automation and software engineering, with approximately 80% of the work centered around automation and 10–20% focused on physical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will understand server infrastructure at a deep technical level while using Python, Ansible, and software engineering practices to automate provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, ticketing, and lifecycle management.
What the Right Candidate Will Enjoy:
- Building automation for enterprise server infrastructure!
- Modernizing legacy infrastructure and operational processes!
- Developing self-monitoring and self-healing infrastructure capabilities!
- Automating bare-metal server and operating system environments!
- Working across Windows and Linux infrastructure!
- Building playbooks and infrastructure automation solutions!
- Helping transition a traditionally contractor-heavy organization toward modern, automated infrastructure operations!
Experience of the Right Candidate:
- Strong infrastructure software engineering background
- Experience building software and automation within an infrastructure domain
- Deep understanding of enterprise server infrastructure and operating systems
- Strong Python and/or Ansible experience
- Experience automating infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, maintenance, or remediation
- Experience working with legacy infrastructure and modernizing existing environments
- Understanding of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and data center environments
- Strong troubleshooting and systems engineering skills
Responsibilities:
- Develop automation solutions for enterprise server infrastructure and data center operations
- Automate server provisioning, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and lifecycle activities
- Build and maintain Python and Ansible playbooks and automation frameworks
- Develop self-monitoring and automated remediation capabilities
- Automate incident detection and ticket creation through infrastructure monitoring
- Support bare-metal operating system deployments and lifecycle management